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ISTICS OF  REED  COLLEGE  AND  POINTING  THE  WAY 
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REED    COLLEGE 


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jEED  COLLEGE  was  made  possible  in  1904  by  the  will  of  Amanda  Wood 
Reed,  of  Portland,  made  in  accordance  with  the  wishes  of  Simeon  G. 
Reed,  her  husband,  who  died  in  Portland  in  1895.    Mr.  and 

Foundation 

Mrs.  Reed  came  to  Oregon  from  Massachusetts  in  1851.   The 
will  named  five  trustees,  a  self-perpetuating  body,  and  wisely  left  to 
them  the  widest  latitude  in  deciding  the  type  of  institution  to  be  founded. 

The  Secretary  of  the  General  Education  Board,  Dr.  Wallace  Buttrick,  made 
two  trips  to  the  Northwest  for  the  purpose  of  studying  educational  needs.  He  sub- 
mitted a  full  report  to  the  Board.  On  motion  of  Dr.  Charles  W.  Eliot,  of  Harvard 
University,  the  Board  declared  that  the  greatest  educational  need  of  Portland  was 
a  college  of  liberal  arts  and  sciences.  They  further  concurd  with  Dr.  Buttrick  in  the 
opinion  that  there  was  no  better  spot  in  the  United  States  for  founding  a  college  of 
the  proposed  type.  In  1910,  after  taking  counsel  with  other  eminent  educational 
leaders  and  after  making  an  extensiv  survey  of  Northwestern  institutions,  the  Trus- 
tees decided  to  establish  first  a  College  of  Arts  and  Sciences. 

The  College  began  in  temporary  quarters  in  1911  and  in  permanent  buildings  in 
1912.  The  campus  covers  eighty-six  acres  in  the  City  of  Portland,  on  the  east  side 
of  the  Willamette  River  about  three  miles  from  the  center  of  the  City. 
Forty  acres  were  the  gift  of  the  Ladd  Estate  Company.  About  seven  Beginnings 
hundred  thousand  dollars,  which  is  all  of  the  accumulated  income  from 
endowments  except  the  amount  appropriated  for  the  current  budget  of  the  College, 
have  been  expended  on  grounds,  buildings  and  equipment.    No  additional  funds  are 


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available  for  buildings,  since  the  will  forbids  the  use  of  any  part  of  the  present  en- 
dowment for  this  purpose. 

The  endowment  consists  chiefly  of  forty-two  pieces  of  real  estate  in  the  City  of 
Portland.    This  guarantees  the  future  support  of  the  College  and  fittingly  links  its 
material  prosperity  with  that  of  the  City  which  it  is  establisht  to  serv.    The  greater 
part  of  the  endowment,  however,  is  not  now  income-bearing  and  prob- 
ably cannot  wisely  be  made  to  contribute  to  the  support  of  the  College     Endowment 
for  some  years  to  come.    The  net  income  for  the  fiscal  year  1913-14  was 
only  seventy-two  thousand  dollars.    About  forty  per  cent  of  the  gross  income  from 
endowment  in  that  year  was  given  to  the  City  of  Portland,  not  in  the  form  of  edu- 
cation for  its  youth  but  in  taxes.    The  immediate  needs  of  the  College,  therefore,  are 
not  met  by  the  endowment  or  by  fees;  the  College  finds  it  utterly  impossible  to  pay 
the  expenses  this  year  of  the  work  that  is  rightly  demanded  of  it,  and  therefore 
important  work  remains  undone;  for  the  College,  in  accord  with  the  fixt  policy  of 
the  Trustees,  has  never  had  a  det  or  a  deficit. 

Reed  College  is  undenominational.    The  will  provides  that  the  institution  "for- 
ever be  and  remain  free  from  sectarian  influence,  regulation  or  con- 
trol, permitting  those  who  may  seek  its  benefits  to  aflfiliate  with  such      Religious  but 

'   -^  "  non-sectarian 

religious  societies  as  their  consciences  may  dictate."  No  sectarian  con- 
siderations enter  into  the  election  of  Trustees  or  Faculty  or  the  admission  of 


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students.  There  are  religious  meetings — daily  chapel  and  Sunday  vesper  servises, 
Bible  study  classes  and  Christian  Association  activities  —  in  which  all  may  take  part 
without  compulsion.    The  servises  are  open  to  the  public. 

The  eagerness  of  the  College  to  provide  the  best  possible  conditions  for  the  devel- 
opment of  strong  character  is  not  shown  merely  or  mainly  in  chapel  servises,  but  as 
well  in  the  requirements  for  admission,  the  choice  of  the  Faculty,  the  scope  and 
spirit  of  the  curriculum,  the  refusal  to  tolerate  neglect  of  studies,  the 
policy  in  athletics,  the  development  of  self  -  reliance  and  independent  Moral  education 
government  among  students,  the  co-operation  of  students  and  Fac- 
ulty in  all  community  interests,  and  the  uncompromising  elimination  of  the  most 
injurious  activities  of  "college  life."  As  the  notorious  failures  of  college  students  to 
use  their  opportunities  as  they  should  are  due  partly  to  ignorance  and  the  lack  of 
timely,  specific  guidance,  the  College  offers  all  freshmen  a  systematic  course  of  in- 
struction, thruout  the  year,  dealing  with  the  actual  problems  of  college  life.  The 
course  comprizes  the  following  topics:  the  origin  and  development  of  the  American 
college,  the  purpose  of  the  college,  departments  of  study,  election  of  courses,  prin- 
ciples and  methods  of  study,  note-taking,  use  of  the  library,  student  honesty,  general 
reading  and  mental  recreation,  personal  hygiene,  athletics,  fraternity  life,  co-educa- 
tion, college  government,  college  spirit,  religious  affairs,  the  relation  of  the  college 
to  the  community  and  the  choice  of  a  vocation. 

The  other  courses  that  are  pland  especially  for  first  year  students  aim  to 
present  a  comprehensiv  and  humanized  view  of  mathematics,  literature,  natural 
science  and  social  institutions.  These  great  fields  of  human  knowledge  are  offerd 
in  broad  outlines  as  liberal  rather  than  technical  education.  The  introductory 
course  in  natural  science,  for  example,  aims  to  open  up  the  whole  field  in  its  vital 
relations  to  human  experience,  and  to  reveal  the  fundamental  principles  of  all  the 
sciences.  The  course  is  conducted  by  the  three  men  in  charge  of  the  departments 
of  biology,  chemistry,  and  physics.  In  the  course  in  College  Life,  the  President  and 
various  other  members  of  the  Faculty  present  such  instruction  as  they  can  give 
which  experience  has  proved  of  most  value  in  enabling  beginners  to  gain  the  utmost 
from  the  College,  with  the  least  waste  of  time  and  effort.  In  all  courses,  the  best 
instruction  the  College  is  able  to  offer  is  provided  for  freshmen. 

The  College  desires  only  as  many  students  as  its  resources  and  equipment  can 
thoroly  care  for.    It  has  had  from  the  beginning  many  more  applicants 
than  it  could  wisely  admit.     There  were  two  hundred  and  sixty-three      Limited 
applicants  for  admission  before  a  temporary  building  could  be  erected. 
Unless  additional  equipment  is  provided  at  once  by  private  gifts,  the  College  will  be 
obliged  to  decline  many  applicants  who  deserv  its  advantages. 


REED  COLLEGE:    ITS  DOMINANT  CHARACTERISTICS 


The  Reed  College  community  in  tlie  fall  of  nineteen  hundred  and  fourteen 

Admission  is  based  not  merely  on  the  completion  of  a  secondary  school  course 

of  four  years,  or  its  equivalent,  but  on  physical  fitness,  on  scholarship  above  the 

average,  on  evidence  of  good  character,  earnestness  of  purpose,  intellectual 

Earnest       enthusiasm,  qualities  of  leadership  and  devotion  to  the  true  ideals  of 

purpose 

required  higher  cducation.  Young  people  whose  interests  or  habits  are  inconsist- 
ent vi^ith  these  ideals  are  not  welcome.  The  whole  institution  is  organ- 
ized and  conducted  for  those  students  who  are  determind  to  gain  the  best  possible 
preparation  for  the  serious  responsibilities  of  life.  Others  should  not  apply  for 
admission;  they  would  be  disappointed. 

As  the  traditional  college  entrance  examinations  have  neither  discoverd  those 

qualified  for  college  work  nor  kept  out  the  others,  and  as  ordinary  certificates  are 

vague  and  uncertain,  varying  from  school  to  school  and  from  subject  to  subject, 

often  in  extreme  and  always  in  unknown  degrees,  Reed  College  tries  to 

other  take  advantage  of  every  other  possible  source  of  evidence  concerning  the 

entrance  n  t  i  mi  •         •         •      i     ^  i-  -i 

tests  fitness  of  candidates.    The  examination  includes  a  personal  interview  by 

the  President  with  each  prospectiv  student,  as  a  result  of  which  some  are 
discouraged  from  undertaking  the  work  of  Reed  College,  some  are  advised  to  enter 
institutions  better  suited  to  their  needs,  and  some  of  those  who  do  enter  the  College 
have  clearer  ideas  of  the  responsibilities  involvd. 


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Only  qualified 
students  admitted 


As  a  supplementary  effort  to  find  out  which  applicants  for  admission  are  best 
qualified,  the  department  of  psychology  has  applied  twenty  carefully  devised  mental 
tests  to  every  student  who  has  ever  been  admitted  to  the  College.  The 
correlations  between  relativ  standing  in  other  entrance  tests  and  in  exam^inrttrnJ 
these  psychological  tests,  and  the  correlations  between  achievement  in 
the  mental  tests  and  achievement  in  the  studies  of  the  College  are  sought  as  guid- 
ance in  judging  candidates  for  admission. 

No  one  is  admitted  until  he  has  passed  the  physical  examinations  of  the  College 
Physicians  and  of  the  Directors  of  Physical  Education.  This  does  not  mean  that 
physical  perfection  or  unusual  strength  is  required;  it  does  mean  that 
the  college  community  is  garded  against  contagious  disease  before  the  exa^mhTitions 
opening  day  and  against  the  admission  of  students  whose  helth  would 
be  endangerd  by  stringent  scholarship  requirements.  It  means  further  that  the 
College  has,  from  the  outset  of  the  student's  course,  the  necessary  basis  for  pre- 
scribing his  physical  exercizes  and  otherwise  promoting  his  helth. 

No  special  students  and  no  preparatory  students  are  admitted,  and  no  students 
are  admitted  on  condition.    That  is  to  say,  only  those  are  accepted  who  are  judged, 
by  means  of  the  above 
tests,  to  be  wholly  pre- 
pared,   before   entrance, 
for  the  work  of  Reed  College. 

The  government  of  the  students,  in- 
cluding the  conduct  of  examinations  and 
the  administration  of  the  dwelling  halls,  is 
almost  exclusivly  in  the  hands  of  the  Stu- 
dent Council,  elected  annually  by  vote  of 
all  the  students.  The  Faculty  has  made  no 
rules  for  conduct  or  disciplin  and  has 
never  overruled  a  decision  of  the  Student 
Council.  There  is  no  "honor  system"  at 
Reed  College,  devised  to  cover  certain 
hours  or  certain  exercizes :  there  is  a  prin- 
ciple of  honor  which  is  regarded  as  suffi- 
cient to  cover  all  phases  of  stu- 
dent life  at  all  times.  When 
nearly  the  entire  Faculty  left 
the  College  for  three  days  last  spring  to 
attend  the  annual  Pacific  Coast  Conven- 
tion of  Scientific  Societies,  at  Seattle,  the 
students  took  entire  charge  of  the  insti-  crystal  springs  Lake 


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tution,  including  the  conduct  of  all  the  classes  and  the  administration  offises.  The 
interesting  fact  is  not  that  the  students  were  willing  and  able  to  do  this,  but  that 
the  procedure  was  taken  by  everybody  as  a  matter  of  course.  It  was  important  for 
the  Faculty  to  attend  the  meetings  of  fellow  scientists;  it  was  important  for  the  stu- 
dents that  the  work  of  the  College  should  go  on.  So  it  went  on:  they  did  not  even 
stop  to  discuss  the  matter. 

Physical  education,  including  careful  examinations  and  individual  guidance  by 
the  College  Physicians  and  Directors,  and  wholesome  athletic  sports,  especially  com- 
petitiv  games  in  the  open  air,  are  provided  for  all,  teachers  and  students,  men  and 
women,  for  the  sake  of  joy,  recreation,  helth  and  development.  Inter- 
collegiate athletic  contests  are  excluded  because  they  are  antagonistic  to  ^r^'au*^^ 
the  physical  development  of  students  and  to  scholarship,  as  well  as  because 
they  always  necessitate  unwarranted  expense  and  usually  involv  more  serious  evils. 
The  Reed  College  ideal  for  athletics  is  out-of-door  games  in  moderation  for  all  stu- 
dents, especially  those  who  need  them  most,  insted  of  the  excesses  of  intercollegiate 
games  for  a  few  students,  especially  those  who  need  them  least. 

In  the  fall  of  1914,  every  student  in  Reed  College  receivd  some  of  the  benefits 
of  athletics;  about  eighty  per  cent  of  the  students  engaged  in  some  form  of  exer- 
cize at  least  three  times  a  week,  approved  by  the  department  of  phys- 
ical education.    There  is  room  for  everybody, — baseball  and  football      Athletics 
fields,  tennis  courts,  a  quarter-mile  track,  a  gymnasium,  a  lake,  a  river      not  business' 
and  the  open  country.    The  Faculty  take  part  in  athletics  on  the  same 
terms  with  the  students  and  for  the  same  purposes;  it  may  be  said,  incidentally, 
that  the  Faculty  teams  have  held  their  own  in  tennis,  basketball,  handball  and  base- 
ball.   The  expenses  of  athletics  are  insignificant;  an  average  of  sixteen  cents  per 
student  was  the  amount  collected  and  expended  by  the  Student  Council  for  one  year. 
In  a  word,  athletics  at  Reed  College  are  conducted  as  education,  not  as  business. 

The  participation  of  the  Faculty  in  the  athletic  tournaments,  in  the  clubs, 
dances,  campus  day  events  and  other  social  gatherings  is  a  natural  result  of  the 
dominant  aims  of  the  College.  The  traditional  gulf  between  students  and 
Faculty  appears  to  become,  at  Reed  College,  an  imaginary  line.     The    The  Faculty 
Faculty  have  been  chosen  primarily  as  enthusiastic  teachers,  men  and 
women  eager  to  make  vital  contact  with  individual  students  as  human  beings. 

Social  affairs  at  Reed  College  are  inexpensiv  and  simple,  as  becomes  higher  edu- 
cation, and  are  always  subordinate  to  the  main  purposes  of  the  College.  There  are 
no  fraternities  and  no  sororities,  because  the  College  prefers  a  whole- 

'^  A  social 

some,  sensible,  democratic  social  life  of  the  entire  institution.  The  dwell-  democracy 
ing  halls  and  the  main  building  have  social  rooms  for  students  and  teachers 

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and  their  friends.  All  but  a  few  of  the  students  live  at  home  or  in  the  dwelling 
halls  on  the  campus.  Money  cannot  purchase  for  any  student  better  board,  living 
accommodations,  social  opportunities  or  instruction  than  is  provided  for  all  stu- 
dents. This  is  one  of  the  minor  conditions  which  has  made  Reed  College  a  social 
democracy. 

Another  is  respect  for  productiv  labor:  a  large  majority  of  the  students  are 
partially  self-supporting.  From  the  outset,  most  of  the  work  in  connection  with  the 
care  of  grounds,  buildings,  dining-hall,  gymnasium,  laundry,  bookstore,  labora- 
tories, power  plant,  electrical  equipment,  fish  experiment  house  and  car- 
penter shop,  and  most  of  the  multigrafing,  typewriting,  and  other  clerical  Support 
work  has  been  performd  by  students  as  means  of  self-support.  This  has 
given  the  whole  student  body  a  fine  sense  of  proprietorship  and  responsibility.  For 
this  work,  seventy  per  cent  of  the  men  students  who  were  in  attendance  thruout 
the  year  1913-14,  receivd  income  from  the  College.  Various  loan  funds  have  been 
establisht  thru  generous  gifts  of  friends  of  the  College.  There  are  no  free  scholar- 
ships; all  students  are  on  exactly  the  same  basis.  Every  worthy  student  is  helpt 
who  has  alredy  shown  a  markt  capacity  for  helping  himself. 


The  tuition  fee  of  one  hundred  dollars  covers  about  one-fourth  of  the  cost  to 
the  College  for  the  instruction  of  each  student.     The  other  three-fourths  is  paid 
from  the  income  from  endowment.   Board  and  rooms  are  furnisht  at 
cost.  The  present  cost  of  board  is  four  dollars  and  fifty  cents  per  week, 
and  the  charge  for  each  room,  regardless  of  location,  is  forty  dollars 
for  each  semester. 


Expenses 
of  students 


Courses 
of  study 


The  courses  of  instruction  provide  what  is  regarded  as  the  best  foundation  for 
the  professions  of  law,  politics,  medicin,  ministry,  teaching,  social  servis,  journalism 
and  business.  The  entire  resources  of  the 
institution  are  devoted  to  a  liberal  educa- 
tion suitable  for  these  careers.  There  are 
no  departments  of  agriculture,  domestic  art,  en- 
gineering, forestry,  military  science,  music,  mining 
or  pharmacy.  The  College  seeks  to  avoid  the  com- 
mon error  of  spreding  thinly  over  too  much  ground. 

s  - 

The  requirements  for  graduation  from  Reed 
College  cannot  be  stated  in  years  of  residence  or 
merely  in  courses  completed,  much  less  in  hours 

or    units    of    work.       All    students    are     graded    by  proposed  library  entrance 


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relativ  position  accord- 
ing to  a  scientific  sys- 
tem, based  on  a  normal 
probability  curv.  Credit 
is  given  for  quality  as 
well  as  for  quantity  of 
work,  and  each  student 
is  recommended  for  a 
degree  as  soon  as  he 
earns  it.  During  the 
last  semester  of  his  res- 
idence, the  student 
takes  a  seminar  in  his 
major  subject,  in  con- 
nection with  which  he 
prepares  a  thesis.  A 
satisfactory  thesis  and 
final  oral  examination 
are  required  for  the 
Bachelor's  degree. 

Upon  the  recom- 
mendation of  that 
member  of  the  Faculty 
whom  the  student  has 
chosen  as  his  special 
counselor,  the  student 
comes  up  for  the  final 
oral  examination  in  his 

major  subject  and  closely  related  subjects,  before  a  committee  made  up  of  the 
Faculty  and  of  persons  not  otherwise  connected  with  the  College.  This 

Final  oral         fl^al  examination  is  not  designd  to  cover  particular  courses  of  the 

examination  °  -"^ 

curriculum;  its  purpose  is  to  find  out  whether  the  student,  at  the  time 
when  he  proposes  to  graduate  from  College,  has  a  creditable  grasp  of  his  chief  sub- 
ject of  study.  It  is  partly  for  bredth  of  view  and  a  non-academic  standard  that 
not  all  the  examiners  are  teachers  of  the  candidate. 

From  the  outset.  Reed  College  has  been  false  to  the  venerable  traditions  of  the 
American  college  of  liberal  arts;  for  its  interests,  its  activities  and  its  influence 


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The  Faculty 
and  social  servis 


have  extended  far  beyond  its  campus.  In  the  three  years  of  its  life,  the  College  has 
made  many  vital  connections  with  the  City,  of  some  importance  as  social  servis,  and 
of  incalculable  benefit  to  the  College  because  of  the  helthful  reaction- 
ary influence  upon  it.  Members  of  the  Faculty  have  been  activ  in 
connection  with  innumerable  organizations  devoted  to  public  wel- 
fare; the  Oregon  Civic  League,  for  example,  and  the  Oregon  Social  Hygiene  Society, 
the  Portland  Vice  Commission,  the  Recreation  League,  the  Drama  League,  the  Ad 
Club,  the  Young  Men's  Christian  Association,  the  Greater  Portland  Plans  Associ- 
ation, the  Parent-Teachers'  Association,  the  Society  for  Dental  Education,  the  Public 
Library  Association,  the 
Portland  Commercial 
Club,  and  the  Consum- 
ers' League. 

The   College   has 

frequently  had  calls  for 

assistance  from  various 

departments  of  the  City 

Government  and  has 

conducted  many  inves- 
tigations as  a  basis  for 

civic  improvements. 

One  of  these  was  a  sur- 
vey of  Portland  Vaude- 
ville and  Motion  Pic- 
ture Shows,  made  by  a 
committee  of  sixty  at 
the  request  of  the 
Mayor  of  Portland.  An- 
other was  a  compre- 
hensiv  study  of  the  most 
significant  facts  con- 
cerning four  hundred 
and  thirty -one  of  the 
unemployd  men  in  Port- 
land. The  City  is  con- 
stantly used  as  a  labora- 
tory by  the  College,  es- 
pecially by  students  of 
psychology,  government 

and  sociology.  a  detail  of  the  main  building— east  end 

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The  students 
and  social  servis 


The  students  are  called  upon  for  important  aid  in  connection  with  such  varied 

affairs  as  the  city  elections,  the  churches,  the  Jewish  Neighborhood  House,  the  Fra- 

zier  Home,  the  Young  Men's  Christian  Association,  the  Committee 

of  One  Hundred  for  Oregon  Dry,  the  Good  Roads  work,  the  Red 

Cross,  the  Oregon  Fish  and  Game  Commission,  the  Municipal  Court, 

and  the  Public  Education  Committee  of  the  Social  Hygiene  Society. 

Alredy  the  annual  spring  conference  of  Reed  College  is  lookt  upon  as  a  clearing 
house  and  source  of  inspiration  for  all  organizations  seeking  to  promote  the  welfare 
of  the  City.     At  the  "Portland  1915  Conference"  last  May,  for  example,  more 

than  one  hundred  or- 
ganizations were  repre- 
sented by  speakers, 
exhibits  and  delegates. 
Several  thousand  of  the 
most  activ  workers  for 
the  progress  of  the  City 
met  at  Reed  College  for 
three  days  to  set  definit 
stakes  for  achievement, 
to  interchange  ideas,  to 
enlist  recruits,  to 
arouse  enthusiasm  and 
to  get  results.  Scores 
of  societies,  with  di- 
verse objects  and  mem- 
bers, are  co-operating 
with  the  College  for 
the  good  of  the  City, 
eagerly  and  in  fine 
spirit. 

Typical  of  the  atti- 
tude of  the  College  to- 
ward the  City  and  of 
the  willing  response  of 
the  people  is  the  success 
of  the  Reed  College  Ex- 
tension Course  on  "The 
Voter  and  the  City  of 
Chapel  staircase  Portland."    This  course 


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REED  COLLEGE:  PLANS  FOR  DEVELOPMENT 


of  six  lectures,  illus- 
trated by  three  hundred 
lantern  slides,  aims  to 
present  to  voters  and 
prospectiv  voters  such 
vivid,  concrete,  non- 
partizan  and  accurate 
information  concerning 
every  phase  of  the 
City's  business  as  may 
be  most  useful  to  the 
men  and  women  of 
Portland  in  meeting 
their  duties  of  citizen- 
ship. The  lectures  have 
alredy  been  attended 
by  over  thirty-five  hun- 
dred people  and  are 
now  being  given  by  a 
member  of  the  Student 
Council  to  the  classes 
in  Civics  of  the  public 
schools  of  Portland  and 
at  the  Central  Library 
by  a  member  of  the 
Faculty. 

Extension  Courses, 
open  to  everybody  free 
of  charge,  are  con- 
ducted at  Reed  College, 
at  the  Main  Public  Library,  at  the  Branch  Libraries  and  at  churches  and 
schools  in  various  parts  of  the  City  of  Portland.  These  courses  began 
the  year  the  College  was  founded.  The  attendance  in  1913-1914  was  over      Extension 

courses 

four  thousand.  The  Extension  Courses  for  1914-1915  include  the  follow- 
ing: The  War, — Its  Origins  and  Its  Significance;  The  Voter  and  the  City  of  Port- 
land; Natural  Science;  Supreme  Achievements  in  European  Literature;  English 
Poets;  Riddles  of  the  Universe;  The  New  History;  The  Development  of  the  Drama; 
A  Normal  Course  in  Physical  Education;  and  a  weekly  Conference  on  Labor 
Problems. 


Chapel  staircase 


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REED  COLLEGE:   ITS  DOMINANT  CHARACTERISTICS 


Reed  College 
reduces  taxes 


Entrance  to  the  College  chapel 

Every  contribution  to  the  support  of  Reed  College  saves  expenses  for  the  City. 

If  the  present  work  of  Reed  College,  in  educating  students,  training  teachers,  pro- 
viding extension  courses  and  free  public  lectures,  became  a  municipal 
burden,  it  would  demand  at  least  one  hundred  thousand  dollars  a  year 
of  additional  taxes.  This  work  Reed  College  performs  at  no  expense 

whatever  to  the  City,  and,  in  addition,  pays  thirty-eight  thousand  dollars  in  taxes. 

Opportunities  for  strengthening  the  work  of  Reed  College  are  many  and  varied 
and  attractiv.  Everyone  can  do  something;  everyone  can  become  a  benefactor 
according  to  his  insight  and  his  ability.    Endowment  is  needed  for  the  Faculty; 

sixty  thousand  dollars  will  permanently  provide  for  a  professorship 
bettCT  Coifege*     ^^  3,rt,  or  in  music,  or  in  government.     Funds  are  needed  for  the 

maintenance  of  the  Library;  a  gift  of  one  thousand  dollars  would 
bring  to  the  College  the  most  important  books  of  each  year  in  a  field  of  study  the 
donor  might  name.  Back  files  of  magazines  are  immediate  needs.  One  who  is  par- 
ticularly imprest  with  the  value  of  extension  courses  might  endow  the  City  with 
lasting  benefits  by  providing  for  this  division  of  the  work  of  the  College.    Any 


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REED  COLLEGE:    PLANS  FOR  DEVELOPMENT 


A  view  of  the  upper  chapel  staircase 


amount  will  start  a  loan  fund  for  worthy  students,  and  the  good  work  will  con- 
tinue, generation  after  generation.  Frequently,  for  students  of  great  power  and 
promis,  the  difference  between  going  on  with  higher  education  or  renouncing  the 
ambition  forever  is  only  fifty  or  one  hundred  dollars.  These  altruistic  investments 
in  human  beings  are  the  only  ones  that  really  yield  exorbitant  returns. 

Additional  e  equipment  is  much  needed  for  botany,  psychology,  physics,  chemis- 
try and  zoology.  A  gift  of  any  amount  will  enable  some  one  of  these  departments 
to  carry  forward  an  important  scientific  research  which  is  now  stopt  for  want 
of  bare  necessities.  One  thousand  dollars  would  convert  Crystal  Springs 
Lake  into  a  fish  hatchery  and  biological  experiment  station  of  immediate 
value  to  the  College  and  of  ultimate  value  to  the  whole  state.  The  eighty- 
six  acres  of  campus  and  lakes  offer  ideal  conditions  for  the  development  of  botanical 
gardens.  A  telescope  could  be  put  to  immediate  use.  Funds  are  needed  for  the 
new  department  of  commerce  and  industries.  A  small  endowment  fund  would 
enable  the  College  to  continue  the  publication  of  its  Social  Servis  Bulletins.  These 
are  but  a  few  of  the  ways  in  which  private  donors  may  now  provide  for  necessary 
extensions  of  the  work  of  Reed  College. 


other 
ways  of 
helping 


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REED  COLLEGE:   ITS  DOMINANT  CHARACTERISTICS 


Other  universities  and  colleges  receive  sup- 
port from  the  Federal  government,  the  state,  the 
city,  a  religious  denomination  or 

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reason  alumni.    Reed  College  is  the  only  one 

for  helping 

that  is  wholly  without  these  sources 
of  aid.  It  has  no  political  or  sectarian  connec- 
tions; it  has  no  graduates.  It  therefore  appeals 
strongly  to  men  and  women,  who,  owing  no 
special  allegiance  to  other  types  of  institutions, 
believe  in  the  principles  of  Reed  College. 


Proposed  Commons  and  College  Union 


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THE    PROPOSED    BUILDING    FOR    WOMEN    STUDENTS 

ARE  THE  PRESENT  ACCOMMODATIONS  FOR  WOMEN  ADEQUATE  ? 

\HERE  is  now  no  dwelling  hall  whatever  for  women.  Some  of  them  are 
housed  temporarily  in  one  section  of  the  dwelling  halls  for  men.  The 
building  is  overcrowded;  suites  intended  for  two  students  are  occupied 
by  three;  and  some  of  the  men  students,  for  whom  there  were  no 
rooms  in  the  Men's  Hall,  have  been  accommodated  temporarily  in  the 
gymnasium,  in  the  power  house,  and  in  the  main  building. 

There  is  no  dining-hall  for  women.  In  another  year,  the  one  now  in  use  will 
be  large  enough  only  for  the  men  students. 

There  is  no  gymnasium  for  women.  At  present  they  have  the  use  of  one  wing 
of  the  gymnasium  for  men,  but  this  makeshift  does  not  even  now  provide  sufficient 
lockers  for  all  the  women  students.  In  another  year  the  crowding  will  be  worse. 
When,  in  addition  to  this,  we  consider  the  extension  courses  offerd  in  the  gymnasium, 
open  to  the  public  without  expense,  and  the  further  fact  that  the  Reed  College 
athletic  policy  makes  far  greater  demand  upon  the  gymnasium  than  is  usual  in 
colleges,  the  immediate  need  of  a  gymnasium  for  women  is  evident. 

There  is  no  center  of  social  life  for  women.  Altho  the  College  desires  to  avoid 
the  highly  artificial  and  psychologically  injurious  life  that  results  from  too  rigid 
segregation  of  the  sexes,  and  altho  frequent  opportunities  for  gatherings  of  the 
whole  College  are  indispensable,  it  is  nevertheless  necessary  that  the  women  should 
have  suitable  rooms  for  independent  social  life. 


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Proposed  building  for  women.    First  floor 


There  are  insufficient  library  and  study-rooms  for  women.  Even  now  the  accom- 
modations of  the  main  building  are  inadequate,  and  next  year  it  will  be  necessary 
to  use  one  of  the  study-rooms  for  an  additional  stack-room.  The  floor  plans  pre- 
sented on  page  twenty  show  the  small  space  now  available  for  library  and  study- 
rooms.  This  is  especially  unfortunate  in  an  institution  which  subordinates  inciden- 
tal amusements  to  the  paramount  interests  of  study. 

In  every  one  of  these  particulars,  the  needs  will  be  still  greater  in  the  future. 
The  number  of  women  students  registerd  each  year  follows:  1911-12,  24;  1912-13, 
71;  1913-14,  105;  1914-15,  131.  Not  half  of  the  women  who  have  applied  for  admis- 
sion in  these  years  have  been  admitted.  Without  additional  accommodations  the 
College  will  be  obliged  to  decline  many  more  who  are  worthy  of  its  privileges. 

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WHY  SHOULD  THESE  YOUNG  WOMEN  ATTEND  REED  COLLEGE? 

There  are  two  sufficient  reasons  why  some  young  women  wish  to  attend  Reed 
College  and  no  other.  The  first  reason  is  geografical.  The  map  on  page  twenty-two 
shows  that  Portland  is  more  redily  accessible  than  any  other  location  in  the  Northwest. 
It  is  the  center  of  population  for  a  territory  twice  as  large  as  all  the  New  England 
States.  It  is  now  the  home  city  of  more  than  35,000  girls,  twenty-one  years  of  age 
and  under;  and  the  population  is  increasing,  according  to  the  Federal  census,  at  the 
rate  of  one  hundred  and  twenty-seven  per  cent  in  a  decade.  When  we  add  to  all 
this  the  well-known  educational  advantages  of  residence  during  a  college  course  in 
the  only  large  city  in  this  large  territory,  we  see  abundant  reasons  why  increasing 
numbers  of  young  women  should  decide  to  attend  college  in  the  City  of  Portland. 

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Second,  and  far  more  important,  is  the  fact  that  there  are  many  young  women 
who  evidently  wish  the  advantages  of  this  particular  type  of  college.  If  this  is 
what  they  want,  they  have  no  other  choice,  for  Reed  College  is  the  only  one  in  the 
country  establisht  and  maintaind  in  accordance  with  the  methods  and  ideals  de- 
scribed above. 

CAN  THESE  NEEDS  BE  MET  BY  ONE  BUILDING? 

All  these  needs  are  met  in  the  plans  which  are  here  presented  for  a  building 
for  women.  The  plans  are  the  result  of  years  of  study  of  the  needs  and  accommo- 
dations of  women  at  colleges  in  every  part  of  the  country.  It  appears  that  no  more 
economical  and  permanently  satisfactory  plan  could  be  devised.  The  proposed  build- 
ing includes  rooms  for  fifty  women,  a  dining-hall  large  enough  for  these  resident 


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students  and  for  all  others,  a  gymnasium  sufficient  for  all  the  women,  supplemen- 
tary library  and  study-rooms,  provisions  for  dramatic  performances  and  a  center  of 
social  life. 

IS  THIS  KUILDING  A  FITTING  MEMORIAL? 
The  essentials  of  a  fitting  memorial  are  beauty,  permanence  and  high  purpose. 

The  beauty  of  the  design  is  suggested  by  the  sketches  and  by  the  fotografs  here 
reproduced.  All  the  buildings  are  to  be  in  this  style  of  architecture.  The  illustrations 
suggest  the  attractivness  of  the  surroundings  of  the  proposed  building  for  women. 

Nothing  short  of  an  endowment  fund  for  the  College  for  Women  could  be  a 
more  permanent  memorial  than  this  building.  The  present  structures  are  of  steel, 
concrete,  limestone  and  mission  brick;  they  should  last  for  untold  generations.  The 
new  building  for  women  should  be  equally  durable.  It  will  become  an  integral  part 
of  a  group  plan  covering  eighty-six  acres  of  ground  and  designd  to  meet  the  needs  of 


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a  distant  future.  Few,  if  any,  other  buildings  in  the  City  of  Portland  are  deliber- 
ately constructed  for  permanent  use,  regardless  of  the  City's  growth  for  a  century  to 
come.  Furthermore,  institutions  of  higher  learning,  establisht  on  large  endowments 
which  it  is  impossible  to  spend,  have  proved  in  the  history  of  the  world  the  most  per- 
manent memorials.  Such  institutions  outlive  dynasties,  governments,  states,  cities 
and  religious  sects.  Possibly  nothing  is  surer  to  survive  the  ravages  of  the  Euro- 
pean war  than  the  University  of  Louvain.  Probably  nothing  in  the  entire  Pacific 
Northwest,  conceivd  by  man,  is  built  on  more  lasting  foundations  than  Reed 
College.  It  is,  therefore,  preeminently  the  place  for  a  lasting  memorial.  No  material 
structure  could  have  a  surer  guarantee  of  permanence  than  the  proposed  first  build- 
ing for  the  College  for  Women. 

The  purpose  of  such  a  memorial  would  be  to  promote  the  highest  physical,  men- 
tal and  moral  development  of  generation  after  generation  of  the  young  women  who 
will  do  much  to  determin  the  ultimate  civilization  of  the  Northwest.  There  could 
be  no  higher  purpose. 

In  beauty,  in  permanence  and  in  purpose,  this  greatly  -  needed  building  is  a 
fitting  memorial. 

The  comprehensiv  plans  for  development  of  the  grounds  and  buildings  of  the 
institution  shown  in  the  illustrations,  provide  a  separate  College  for  Women.  The 
first  building  of  this  College  is  an  imperativ  and  immediate  necessity.  There  is  now 
no  dwelling  hall  for  women,  no  dining-hall,  no  gymnasium,  no  separate  athletic 
fields,  no  center  of  social  life,  no  hall  for  dramatics,  no  adequate  library  or  study- 
rooms.  All  of  these  needs  will  be  met  by  the  building,  the  plans  for  which  are  here 
set  forth.  Anyone  who  can  help,  directly  or  indirectly,  in  obtaining  the  funds  nec- 
essary for  this  building  is  urged  to  communicate  at  once  with  the  President  or  with 
the  Trustees  of  Reed  College. 


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